| dc.description.abstract | Hua Guofeng had attended the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to participate in the anti-Japanese guerrillas in Shanxi and to engage in propaganda activities since he was 17 years old. With the army moving south in 1949, he acted as a Party secretary of Xiangtan county in Mao Zedong’’s hometown. This job brought him good luck. Hua Guofeng made a full implementation of the agricultural line proposed by Mao Zedong. Because of his contribution to the construction of Shaoshan, Mao Zedong’’s hometown, he was promoted by Mao Zedong and became the Hunan provincial cadres. Later, Hua was transferred in Beijing and assumed work of national importance. He played some part in investigating the Lin Biao Incident. When the fourth National People’’s Congress of the Communist Party of China was taken place in mid-January 1975, he acted as the Chinese deputy prime minister as well as minister of public security. After Zhou Enlai was died in January 1976, he was promoted to vice chairman of central committee and also acting as prime minister on February 7th. After Deng Xiaoping was fight off, Hua was promoted to the first vice chairman and prime minister, a position only below Mao Zedong. After Mao Zedong was died in September 9th, 1976, the formation of antagonistic struggle within the CCP pushed Hua Guofeng and Ye Jianying, the joint military veteran camp, Wang Dongxing, Wu Der, and others together to arrest the Jiang Qing group in an efficient way. After Mao delivered the note ＂with you in charge, my heart is at ease＂ to Hua, the maximum power was fully controlled by Hua Guofeng, who was then declared as a Mao Zedong’’s successor. After that, he fulfilled the political implementation of the ＂two whatevers＂ to maintain the cult of personality. Meanwhile, he also resisted the return of Deng Xiaoping and implemented the economic ＂Foreign Leap Forward.＂ However, Deng Xiaoping sought to force Hua’s hand in various ways by means of repeatedly advocating ＂Practice is the Sole Criterion for Testing Truth＂ during his return. This strategy made Hua’s group lost ground. As a result, Hua had to be reviewed in the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee. At the same time, Deng Xiaoping still kept pushing Hua in order that Hua’s power was completely eliminated in the Fifth Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee of the CCP. Therefore, Hua lost his position of prime minister in the Third Session of the Fifth National People’’s Congress. To the end, on the basis of “Resolution on certain questions in the history of our party since the founding of the People’s Republic of China”, several events were used for the exchange of chips, for example, Hua Guofeng was blamed for his mistakes and Jiang Qing group was accused not to touch the Tiananmen Incident. Finally, in the Sixth Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party held in June 1981, Hua resigned the chairman of the CCP as well as the chairman of the Central Military Commission. The power was then formally transferred to Deng Xiaoping, and China had then entered into Deng’s era.
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